E-raamat: Femtosecond Technology: From Basic Research to Application Prospects

I Introduction.- I-1 Femtosecond Technology and Its Industrial Impact.-
II Optoelectronics Technology Roadmap and Industry.- II-1 Technology Roadmap
for the Japanese Opto-Electronics Industry.- II-2 Technology Roadmap for
Optical Communication - A North American Perspective.- II-3 Structural Change
in Industry and Reorganization of R&D Systems in Network-Oriented Societies.-
III Ultrafast Optoelectronics for Telecommunications.- III-1 Femtosecond
Semiconductor-Based Optoelectonic Devices for Optical Communications and
Signal-Processing Systems.- III-2 Generation, Control and Processing of
Ultrafast Optical Signals by Electrooptic Modulation/Deflection.- III-3
Subharmonic Mode-Locking of Semiconductor Lasers Operating at Millimetre-Wave
Frequencies.- III-4 All-Optical Access Node Technologies.- III-5 Ultrafast
All-Optical Switch Using Low-Temperature-Grown InGaAs/InAlAs Multiple-Quantum
Wells.- III-6 High Bandwidth Photodetectors.- III-7 Coherent Tunable THz
Oscillation by Nonlinear Optics.- III-8 Multi-Gap Photoconductive Switches
Fabricated by a Scanning Probe Microscope.- IV Semiconductor Quantum
Structures for Femtosecond Devices.- IV-1 High Speed Quantum Dot Lasers:
Phonon Bottleneck Issue in Quantum Dot Lasers.- IV-2 Ultrafast Coherent
Dynamics of Radiatively Coupled Excitons in Multiple Quantum Wells.- IV-3
Femtosecond Studies of Semiconductor Microcavities and VCSELs..- IV-4 Quantum
Dots and the Expected Role in Femtosecond Devices.- IV-5 Ultrafast
Interband-Resonant Light Modulation by Intersubband-Resonant Light in Quantum
Wells.- IV-6 Fabrication Technology of Semiconductor Nanometer Structures
Towards Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- V Femtosecond Lasers and Measurement
Applications.- V-1 Intense Sub-10-fs Laser Pulses: Pushing the Frontiers of
Nonlinear Optics.- V-2 Low-Threshold All-Solid-State Femtosecond Lasers.- V-3
All-Solid-State Cr:LiSAF Femtosecond Lasers.- V-4 Femtosecond Pulse
Generation around 1.3µm Employing Semiconductor saturable Absorber Mirrors
(SESAM).- V-5 Ultrashort Pulse Application to Dimensional Measurements.- V-6
Femtosecond X-Ray Pulse Generation by Using a Low Emittance Electron Beam and
a High Brightness Laser for Measurement Applications.- V-7 Femtosecond
Quantum Beam Science and New Pump-and-Probe Analysis.- VI Materials for
Femtosecond Applications.- VI-1 Ultrafast Functional Materials for
Femtosecond Optoelectronics.- VI-2 Ultrafast Relaxations in One-Dimensional
Systems; ?-Conjugated Polymers, J-Aggregates, and Metal-Halogen Chain
Complexes.- VI-3 Femtosecond Dynamics of Supramolecular Structures in
Condensed Phase.- VI-4 Femtosecond Molecular Photonics Materials.- VI-5
Ultrafast Dynamics of Photochromic Systems.- VI-6. Ultrafast Spectroscopy of
Glass Materials Containing Metal Nanoparticles.